Standard Tuning Capo on the 2nd fret Intro: C5 G5 D5 x4 C5 G5 D5 It's about fifteen hundred miles to California C5 G5 D5 They'll get there Friday if they leave tonight C5 G5 D5 She sneaks out at three thirty in the morning C5 G5 D5 Leaves a note so she won't see her daddy cry C5 G5 D5 x2 C5 G5 D5 He cuts the engine when he coasts in the driveway C5 G5 D5 She slides in and gives him one kiss for the road C5 G5 D5 No friends and no family, no job out there waiting C5 G5 D5 The whole town will call them crazy but they gotta go C5 G5 D5 'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah C5 G5 D5 You might do sgome things that don't seem all that smart C5 G5 D5 C5 G5 'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your D5 Head to your heart C5 G5 D5 x2 C5 G5 D5 They can barely make rent on a rundown apartment C5 G5 D5 She's waiting tables and he's a valet C5 G5 D5 They're behind on the bills and the car's barely running C5 G5 D5 But he buys a ring with the tips that he's saved C5 G5 D5 'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah C5 G5 D5 You might do sgome things that don't seem all that smart C5 G5 D5 C5 G5 'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your D5 Head to your heart C5 G5 D5 E5 B5 C5 G5 D5 Last thing they need is another mouth to feed, but they won't call E5 B5 C5 G5 D5 Just kids themselves but that's all to change in nine more months C5 G5 D5 She wakes him up at three thirty in the morning C5 G5 D5 Ready or not their new life's gonna start C5 G5 D5 Seven pounds and eighteen inches C5 G5 D5 The doctor lays that new baby's head right on her heart C5 G5 D5 C5 G5 D5 When you're young and in love, yeah C5 G5 D5 You might do some things that don't seem all that smart C5 G5 D5 But thank God for those eighteen inches C5 G5 D5 The distance it is from your head to your heart C5 G5 D5 x4 End on C